New York
Fashion Week SS27

New York’s fashion week began as "Press Week," a 1943 showcase created by fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert. With transatlantic travel restricted during the Second World War, American editors could no longer cover the Paris collections, and Lambert’s event redirected their attention to American ready-to-wear designers working in New York. Press Week is widely cited as the first organised fashion week of its kind, and it established New York as a permanent stop on the international calendar.

The event evolved through the decades — renamed Fashion Week, consolidated under centralised venues in the 1990s, and later decentralised again into a citywide calendar of independently produced shows. The official schedule today is maintained by the Council of Fashion Designers of America, the trade body founded in 1962, whose Fashion Calendar lists the season’s confirmed shows and presentations.

The Spring/Summer 2027 edition ran 10–15 September 2026, opening the four-city womenswear season ahead of London, Milan and Paris. The CFDA’s preliminary schedule opened with Henry Zankov’s debut for Diane von Furstenberg on 10 September and concluded with Thom Browne on 15 September; the full show record is on the CFDA Fashion Calendar.